Shooting form the Hip: If these fellows aren’t related, they certainly think alike when it comes to guns and clothes. Their long-barreled 1849 Colt Pocket revolvers are backed up by the two flanking gents’ menacing looking clip-point bowie knives.

A family Bible belonging to the sister of Brushy Bill, who claimed to be Billy the Kid, listed his birth year as 1879. If this is true, then Brushy Bill couldn’t possibly be Billy the Kid, right?

A family Bible belonging to the sister of Brushy Bill, who claimed to be Billy the Kid, listed his birth year as 1879. If this is true, then Brushy Bill couldn’t possibly be Billy the Kid, right?

Jerry West

Waxahachie, Texas

Billy the Kid expert Fred Nolan—and I don’t know anybody who knows the subject more than he does—says Brushy Bill was not Billy the Kid. “Back in December 1987,” he tells me, “Mrs. Geneva Pittmon, who was Brushy Bill’s niece (not sister), replied to a letter written by Joe Bowlin, then president of the Billy...

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